The Breitling Watch Blog

Ever wonder how to regulate your watch? Its not that hard, but it is advisable to have a certified watchmaker do it for you, however if you dont want the expense or want to learn it yourself.. this short video is a good place to look:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=13FpX2Ylo9E

Doesn’t give you the whole picture, but teaches you a bit of terminology and part names. Check out some links on the internet for even more info on doing this. Timezone has a neat article on it here:

http://www.timezone.com/library/archives/archives631703035854316706

This Phenomenal watch was designed by Ruchonnet and Halter in a very limited 135 Piece series. It will be produced between 2006 and 2008. Double sapphire crystals and an entire movement visible from tops and sides of the case.

Winding the watch and setting the hour and minutes are effected using a winding stem in the form of a movable “winch” that links directly to one of the small “capstans” that are found at the four exterior angles of the case: at the upper left, it acts directly on the fusee and, by the intermediary of the chain, allows the barrel to be wound; at the upper right, it acts on the minute cylinder which is connected to that of the hours. The two other small “capstans” are only there for decoration.

This site has a REALLY cool set of documentries that interviews each different person that goes into the making of a Swiss Horological Masterpeice (Swiss watch). It is very cool.. in some foreign language but it is translated for us English speakers. Talks about the Enamelling, Guilloche, watchmaking, strap making, glass making, case making.. EVERYTHING!!

You have to check this out:

Watch Documentry Videos

I opened up a Youtube account and I’m going to put up some videos. Right now i have one of a watchmaker using a Guilloche machine to work a rose gold dial.. very cool 🙂 I’ll be doing some video reviews possibly and other types of things shortly… as time permits.

Check it:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=breitlingsource

Some dood, destroying his rolex watch by beating it into the concrete.. i’m not sure if it’s a real rolex, but he’s doing it!

I dunno why a guy would take a $5-6K watch and they proceed to trash the hell out of it… but there are some interesting people out there.